Modem message (event) - Revision history

Bomb Bloke at 10:54, 27 December 2015

2015-12-27T10:54:26Z

Apemanzilla at 17:54, 8 April 2015

2015-04-08T17:54:49Z

Cranium: Removed NeedsWork flag, since Lyqyd was awesome enough to fix the template.

2013-10-06T10:39:31Z

Removed NeedsWork flag, since Lyqyd was awesome enough to fix the template.

Cranium at 11:39, 4 October 2013

2013-10-04T11:39:59Z

Cranium: Added NeedsWork tag, due to broken template

2013-10-04T11:33:41Z

Added NeedsWork tag, due to broken template

Cranium: Created page

2013-10-04T11:30:20Z

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{{lowercase}}
{{Event
|name=modem_message
|desc=Fired when any modem message arrives through an open modem.
|return1=The side of the computer where the message was received.
|return2=The frequency that the message has been received on.
|return3=The frequency that the sender defined when sending the message.
|return4=The message received in string format. If the message was previously a table, see [[textutils.unserialize]].
|return5=The distance (in blocks) between the two computers.
{{Example
|desc=Prints details of the message received.
|code=
while true do
event, side, frequency, replyFrequency, message, distance = [[os.pullEvent]]("modem_message")
[[print]]("Message received fromt the open modem on the "..side.." side of this computer.\nFrequency: "..frequency.."\nRequested reply frequency: "..replyFrequency.."\nDistance: "..distance.."\nMessage is as follows: "..message)
end
|output=Will print out all details of the message received on the modem.
}}
}}

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 {{Event
 |name=modem_message
-|desc=Fired when any modem message arrives through an open modem.
+|desc=Fired when any modem message arrives through an open modem channel. If the message arrived cross-dimensionally, then the distance argument is set to nil.
 |return1=The side of the computer where the message was received.
 |return2=The frequency that the message has been received on.

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 |return2=The frequency that the message has been received on.
 |return3=The frequency that the sender defined when sending the message.
-|return4=The message received in string format. If the message was previously a table, see [[textutils.unserialize]].
+|return4=The message received. It will remain the same type as was transmitted.
 |return5=The distance (in blocks) between the two computers.
 }}

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 {{lowercase}}
 {{Event
 |name=modem_message

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   while true do
     event, side, frequency, replyFrequency, message, distance = [[os.pullEvent]]("modem_message")
-    [[print]]("Message received fromt the open modem on the "..side.." side of this computer.\nFrequency: "..frequency.."\nRequested reply frequency: "..replyFrequency.."\nDistance: "..distance.."\nMessage is as follows: "..message)
+    [[print]]("Message received from the open modem on the "..side.." side of this computer.")
   end
 |output=Will print out all details of the message received on the modem.
 }}